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The Phillies announced the long- awaited trades of two of the trade chips they signed during the off season.  Friday evening, they traded Howie Kendrick plus cash considerations to the Washington Nationals for McKenzie Mills and international amateur signing bonus pool space.  (story here.) And later, they announced the trade of Jeremy hellickson and cash … Continue reading Phillies Announce Deals for Kendrick, Hellickson →

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Phillies Announce Deals for Kendrick, Hellickson

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The game’s result – another ninth-inning debacle after a stunning comeback – is less impactful than the performance by Jeremy Hellickson, who failed to showcase himself in the second-to-last-start before the deadline.

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Phillies fall to Brewers in the ninth

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Jeremy Hellickson and Pat Neshek displayed their trade value while Joaquin Benoit – who gave up three runs in the eighth – may have hurt his.

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Joaquin Benoit melts down as Phillies fall to Pirates

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Aaron Nola is starting to look like the Aaron Nola we all anticipated when he was drafted a few years back. Nick Pivetta is doing alright. Mark Leiter Jr

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About to Have a Good Problem

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Two years to the day of Terry Collins suggesting human sacrifice as a way to get out of the dog days of a season where they won the National League pennant, it was the offense that died against Nick Pivetta and the Phillies in a 7-1 loss at Citi Field. We all knew we had to hold our breath to get through a Rafael Montero start, and sure enough he gave up four runs in the second inning to sink the Mets, including a run on a wild pitch where Andrew Knapp scored from second base . But all in all for an eighth starter, Montero wasn’t horrible

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A Big Top for Aaron Altherr’s Circus

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Behold The Sports Daily July 2017 MLB Power Rankings, hosted by Joseph Coblitz of the excellent Cleveland Indians blog Burning River Baseball . Curious about which MLB teams are climbing up the ladder and which teams are in catastrophic freefall?

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The Sports Daily July 2017 MLB Power Rankings

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Part of the thing that amazes me about how bad this year has been is that so many players, individually, have been awful. If you told me the team was going to finish with 90-plus losses, I’d have been as shocked as if you’d told me it would have won 90-plus games.

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Who’s been the biggest disappointment this year?

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Jeremy Hellickson couldn’t stop the bleeding in a 7-2 loss. The Phils have lost 20 of their last 24.

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Floundering Phillies roughed up by Rockies again

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The Phillies have given up an absurd amount of home runs. The team has given up 48 home runs in just 30 games. That puts them on a pace for 259, which would break the record 258 allowed by the 2016 Cincinnati Reds.

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Two-strike home runs are killing the Phillies

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One tenth of the season is in the books. So what have we learned about the 2017 Phillies? They sit at 7-9, in fourth place in the National League East.

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16 games in, what have we learned?

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